Figuring Out with Raj Shamani
Raj Shamani
Figuring Out is a podcast for people who want to learn. It connects the world’s sharpest minds to the 1.4 billion Indians who want to win.
Raj Shamani sits across from the world's top 1%: billionaires, leaders, entrepreneurs, athletes, and experts to give you a masterclass in what it takes to reach the top of a global stage. World’s best playbooks, strategies, and stories for the generation that wants to turn their ambitious dreams into reality. Figuring Out has become a place where the world comes to talk to India. And where India comes to learn from the world. Follow to become a part of it.
Raj Shamani sits across from the world's top 1%: billionaires, leaders, entrepreneurs, athletes, and experts to give you a masterclass in what it takes to reach the top of a global stage. World’s best playbooks, strategies, and stories for the generation that wants to turn their ambitious dreams into reality. Figuring Out has become a place where the world comes to talk to India. And where India comes to learn from the world. Follow to become a part of it.
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11 snips
Nov 7, 2026 • 1h 41min
Ex-IMF Chief Economist: How USA Debt Triggers a Global Crisis | Gita Gopinath | FO585 Raj Shamani
Gita Gopinath, Harvard economist and former IMF Chief Economist, explores how money, interest rates, and America’s $38 trillion debt shape the world. She discusses the dollar’s dominance, China’s rise, tariffs, India’s supply-chain opportunity, and the retreat of globalization. The conversation also examines AI’s economic promise, market risks, geopolitics, future jobs, and the looming threat of a global debt crisis.
26 snips
Nov 5, 2026 • 1h 43min
How To Make The Next 10 Years The Best Years Of Your Life | Mel Robbins | FO584 Raj Shamani
Mel Robbins, bestselling author of The 5 Second Rule and The Let Them Theory, joins a candid conversation about transforming your life through action. They explore feeling stuck, discovering what you truly want, building daily habits, finding joy during hard chapters, and rebuilding after financial ruin. Mel also discusses relationships, personal branding, business growth, purpose, and the personal cost of reinvention.
95 snips
Nov 3, 2026 • 1h 8min
Sam Altman On AI Revolution, Superintelligence & Future Of Humanity | FO583 Raj Shamani
Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO and former Y Combinator president, discusses AI’s rapid evolution and India’s optimism about its future. He revisits the bets behind GPT-4 and ChatGPT, the value of ambitious contrarian ideas, and why leaders need pushback. He also explores AI risk, concentrated power, startup endurance, and the personal cost of pursuing superintelligence.
7 snips
Oct 31, 2026 • 2h 30min
Bryson DeChambeau On Mindset, Loneliness, Losing His Father & Winning US Open | FO582 Raj Shamani
Bryson DeChambeau, two-time U.S. Open champion known for his scientific approach to golf, opens up about relentless improvement, reinventing equipment, speed training and independent thinking. He discusses childhood insecurity, criticism, loneliness after winning, the emotional cost of elite performance, and losing his father before the defining putt of his 2024 U.S. Open victory.
16 snips
Oct 29, 2026 • 3h 10min
What A Nuclear Bomb Does To You, Second By Second | Annie Jacobsen | FO581 Raj Shamani
Annie Jacobsen, an investigative journalist and bestselling author specializing in national security, explores the terrifying mechanics of nuclear war. She discusses presidential launch authority, false alarms, nuclear winter, Area 51, lost weapons, and the fragile logic of deterrence. The conversation also examines why engineered biological weapons could pose an even greater threat, plus the secrets governments keep.
9 snips
Oct 27, 2026 • 1h 15min
How Extreme Heat Is Becoming India’s $180 Billion Problem | Arunabha Ghosh | FO580 Raj Shamani
Arunabha Ghosh, climate and energy policy expert and former Council on Energy, Environment and Water CEO, explores India’s extreme-heat crisis and its economic stakes. They discuss heat stress, lost productivity, AI-powered local response plans, unpredictable monsoons, pollution, energy security, and the global climate power struggle. The conversation also examines geoengineering, climate-tech opportunities, and cooler homes through smarter design.
19 snips
Oct 24, 2026 • 1h 50min
How Osama Bin Laden Was Found, Killed & Raid Strategy | Robert J. O’Neill | FO579 Raj Shamani
Robert J. O’Neill, former Navy SEAL and SEAL Team Six operator, recounts the planning and execution of the Osama bin Laden raid. He details CIA intelligence, intense rehearsals, a helicopter crash, the final confrontation, and escaping with vital evidence. O’Neill also discusses fear, threats, leaving the military, personal regret, and building a life after becoming part of history.
35 snips
Oct 22, 2026 • 2h 50min
How To Build An Unbreakable Mind & Push Beyond Your Limits | Ayyoub El Osrouti | FO578 Raj Shamani
Ayyoub El Osrouti, a professional ultrarunner who rose from beginner to elite competitor, shares the brutal world of backyard ultras and 93-hour races. He discusses training, strength work, fueling, hallucinations, severe injuries, and knowing when pain means stop. He also explores David Goggins’ influence, family-driven ambition, self-talk, discipline, and building an unbreakable mind one loop at a time.
Oct 20, 2026 • 2h 22min
Social Scientist: Why Everyone Wants To Look Rich & Successful | Rob Henderson | FO577 Raj Shamani
Rob Henderson, social scientist, Manhattan Institute senior fellow, and author of Troubled, explores the hidden rules of status. They discuss why people lie, how wealth and poverty shape self-presentation, the shift from luxury goods to cultural capital, and why success never feels sufficient. They also examine dating, “luxury beliefs,” social mobility, young men and risk, escaping low-status labels, and the personal cost of rising from poverty to elite institutions.
67 snips
Oct 17, 2026 • 2h 16min
How to Read People, Build Trust & Choose Better Friends | Adam Grant | FO576 Raj Shamani
Adam Grant, organizational psychologist, Wharton professor, and bestselling author, explores why first impressions can mislead and how to read character through behavior. He unpacks chemistry, deep conversations, virtual dating, friendship, loneliness, and the difference between liking, trust, and reliability. They also discuss conflict, forgiveness, introversion, reconnecting with old friends, and building stronger communities.
